Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time. The changes are necessary, he argues, because "an old-world order is coming to an end and the shape of a new world community is yet to be defined." The old order, based largely on military power and nationalism, is giving way to "a technetronic age" in which there will be increasing emphasis on economic development and social justice. The old East-West ideological struggle will wane in importance; the North-South struggle for control of vital raw materials will gain in importance. In this emerging world, according to Brzezinski, "military power by itself will no longer dictate...
Given the audience, the quality of the nostalgia stirred is something less than an exercise in historic imagination. Said one 26-year-old, looking back on the golden age of Beatledom, "I just remember everybody screaming in the seventh grade." Or as Charles McGinnis, 24, put it with some awe, "This is the closest you are ever going to get to seeing the Beatles. It's the one chance...
What if Herman Melville had been a screenwriter in the age of Jaws? Would it have occurred to him to give Ahab's sense of injury and obsession with revenge to the whale, to put the moral and psychological shoe on the other flipper? And if he had had the temerity to shop so weird a concept around town, would some producer have had the common sense to tell him, "Back to the custom house, Herman...
...fiery Floridian who, at 76, is as oratorically opulent as he was four decades ago as a radical New Deal Senator. Democrat Pepper's latest crusade, gingered up by senior citizens' groups like the Gray Panthers, is aimed at halting what he views as discrimination because of age. His argument, delivered in his trademark soapbox-preacher style: "Mandatory retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talent, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system and drives many elderly persons into poverty and despair...
...Americans-almost 11% of the population-who are 65 and over. He complains that, oddly enough, these citizens were left exposed to unfair treatment by some past reform legislation: the 1967 law that forbade discrimination in the hiring and firing of people under 65 in private industry because of age, thus penalizing people over 65. Pepper has pushed through the House Education and Labor Committee a bill that would bar forced retirement in the private sector until age 70 and eliminate the mandatory retirement at that age that now applies to all federal employees. A Senate subcommittee headed...